Posted on 02/21/2016 7:43:20 PM PST by jimbo123
For Jeb Bush's loyalists, the first moment of palpable panic - and there would be more than they ever expected in the months to come - built over four days last May when their not-yet-presidential candidate struggled repeatedly to utter a one-word answer - No - to an utterly predictable question: Should the U.S. have invaded Iraq?
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From the start, the campaign hired extensively and paid handsomely. That money, though, couldn't come from Right to Rise, which had pulled off a record $103 million haul in six months. The campaign needed to raise the cash itself. It couldn't keep up. The budget had to shrink, again and again.
Each round, donors panicked again. Some sent angry emails with their ideas of what - and who - needed to change.
"Very seldom do you start a company with $100 million in the bank and manage to blow it out of the door, with little results to show for it," said Miami healthcare magnate Mike Fernandez, who gave more than $3 million to Right to Rise before he became displeased with the campaign last fall. "You don't start a start-up with 100 employees. You've got to work your way into it.
"I think they misread it: They felt that they were going to win, so instead of starting lean and mean - I'm just guessing - they started with a transition team. When you think of yourself as the appointed one from Day One - or your team does - something's going to give."
(Excerpt) Read more at miamiherald.com ...
Yup. And he has tried to seize land in Galveston held by the same family since the forties.
Dismissing the base seemed like a doomed strategery to me, but it’s good to see how it played out when pushed by hundreds of Million$.
His votes went to Trump.Trump will get the overwhelming majority of remaining Bush voters.
What did it take, two generations from war hero to this?
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